Acting teaching staff

Find out more about our teaching staff, for our BA (Hons) and MA programmes, our Foundation Course in Acting and Short Courses.

Director of Actor Training

Lucy Skilbeck

BA (Hons) in Acting

Sinéad Rushe Lead Acting Tutor
Lesley Ewen Improvisation and Devising
Christopher Heimann Improvisation
Naeem Hayat Acting
Melanie Jessop Acting
Beru Tessema Screen Acting and Meisner Technique

Lizzie Ballinger Lead Movement Tutor
John Baxter Movement
Mixalis Aristidou Pure Movement
Mathew Wernham Period and Social Dance and Style
Francine Watson Coleman Period Movement and Style
Philip D'Orleans Stage Combat
Bret Yount Stage Combat
Paul Jeans Piano Accompanist
Louise Kempton Movement

Jane Streeton Lead Singing Tutor
Jonathan Butcher Choral Singing
Frances Jellard Singing
Melanie Marshall Singing
Mark Oldfield Singing
Philip Raymond Singing
Tom Wakeley Singing

Kay Welch Lead Voice Tutor (post endowed by Elizabeth Sebok)
Deborah Garvey Speech and Voice
Mary Irwin Voice
Gemma May Maddock Voice
Annie Morrison Speech and Voice
Tamsin Newlands Voice
Emma Woodvine Practical Voice and Speech

Pamela Jikiemi Head of Film, TV and Audio

Katya Benjamin Alexander Technique
Korina Biggs Alexander Technique
Bethan Pugh Alexander Technique
Lloyd Trott Academy Dramaturg
David Timson Actor's History
Nona Shepphard Associate Director and Chair of Audition Panel

MA Theatre Lab

MA Theatre Lab Course Leader Ian Morgan

Robert Fried Acting & text
Nigel Gearing Contextual studies
Peta Lily Clown and commedia dell'arte
Linda Miller Acting

Gabrielle Moleta Movement / Physical performance
Jüri Nael Movement
Guillaume Pigé Clown
Dan Sherer Text / Directing
Victoria Woodward Teacher
Chiara D'Anna Teacher
Gemma Crooks Acting

Esi Acquaah-Harrison Voice
Bruce Alexander Acting & text
Lois Baxter Acting & text
Stefan Bednarczyk Singing
Katya Benjamin Movement teacher
Martin Berry Acting & text
Irina Brown Directing
Geoff Bullen Acting & text
Imogen Butler-Cole Acting & text
Lucinda Cary Film, TV & radio
Michelle Chadwick Acting & text
Andrew Charity Singing
Tamsin Collison Acting & text
Naomi Cranston Acting & text
Philip Cumbus Acting & text
Andrew Cuthbert Acting
Alan David Acting & text
Neil D'Souza Acting & text
Yarit Dor Movement
Caroline Eves Acting & text
Jeremy Finch White Voice
Aundrea Fudge Voice
Sophie Grimmer Singing
Skye Hallam Acting & text
Tim Hardy Acting & text
Claudia Harrison Acting & text
Michael Haslam Singing
Giles Havergal Text
Ian Henderson Acting & text
Andy Hinds Text & directing
Nick Hutchison Acting & text
Rosamunde Hutt Acting & text
Trilby James Acting & text
Max Keeble Movement
Richard Keith Acting & Text
Louise Kempton Movement
Nancy Kettle Movement
Gemma Kerr Text
Caroline Kilpatrick Voice
Joseph Kloska Acting & text
Gary Lagden Acting & text
Zhenya Leverett Combat
Syrus Lowe Acting & text
Faye Maughan Dance & movement
Gerrard Martin Dance
Dewi Matthews Alexander technique
Tanya Moodie Acting & text
Vivian Munn Acting & text

Anne Musisi Acting & text
Rachel Nicholson Voice & Accent
Dan O'Neill Movement
Catrin Osborne Yoga
Deborah Paige Acting & text
Brigid Panet Acting & text
Martin Parr Text
Jenny Patrone Dance
Sabi Perez Acting
Philip Raymond Singing
Rowena Ritchie Dance
Alice Robinson Mask & clown
Francesca Roche Dance
Tanya Ronder Playwriting
Morwenna Rowe Voice
Ingrid Schiller Acting & text
Philip Sheppard Acting & text
Paul Sirett Text
Alison Skilbeck Acting & text
Aoife Smyth Acting & text
Salvatore Sorce Voice
Paula Stephens Voice
Jonathan Still Piano Accompanist
Jeremy Stockwell Clown
Zoe Templeman-Young Acting & text
Michelle Terry Acting & text
Adrienne Thomas Voice
Andrew Tidmarsh Acting & text
John Tucker Voice
Carla Turner Yoga
Jessica Turner Acting & text
Tilly Vosburgh Text
Zoe Waites Acting & text
Tom Wakeley Singing coach
Che Walker Acting & text
Suzanne West Voice
Gary Williams Acting
Mark Winstanley Clown
Hilary Wood Acting & text
Madeleine Wynn